a·loof /əˈlo͞of/
adjective Cool And Collected Sixties Mod, with a 40s show gal twist. POPOLOGY® clocks this era as innovative and sprightly!
not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant. "they were courteous but faintly aloof" Similar: distant detached unresponsive remote unapproachable forbidding standoffish formal impersonal stiff austere stuffy withdrawn reserved unforthcoming uncommunicative indifferent unfriendly unsympathetic unsociable antisocial cool cold chilly frigid frosty haughty supercilious disdainful Opposite: familiar friendly
conspicuously uninvolved and uninterested, typically through distaste. "he stayed aloof from the bickering"
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